Lifestyle

The relationship pattern you keep repeating probably has nothing to do with the person you’re with — and everything to do with what you learned love felt like before you were old enough to question it

A young woman with curly hair in a beige tank top looks toward the camera, while a blurred person stands in the foreground. Warm, low lighting.

The woman who reorganizes her entire life for every new partner, the man who monitors his girlfriend’s moods before expressing needs, the person who keeps choosing “emotionally unavailable” partners who are actually desperately trying to connect — they’re all dancing to music that started playing before they could walk.